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0 pointsYjSe2GMQ6y ago0 comments

Which is absurd, considering it's involved in college admission process.

Maybe we should also have a hidden citizen score, to be used behind the scenes in the courts of law?

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We should call it the social credit score.

> Which is absurd, considering it's involved in college admission process.

Your SAT score is just about the only bit of the admission process you have access to. You don't get the admissions officers' opinions on your essay, what they thought of your extracurriculars, how they perceive the reputation of your high school, what their alumni interviewers said, etc.

(Chances are you can make a pretty good guess at what the adversity score is going to be, too.)

TFortunato6y ago

You mean like this? https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

NullPrefix6y ago

Should adversity points be included in that citizen score?

harryh6y ago

The college admission process (especially for more elite schools) already involves lots of secrecy.

solveit6y ago

And all that secrecy should go burn in a fire. Colleges have more impact than many government institutions, and they certainly take in a lot more government funding than many government institutions. They should be as transparent as government institutions if not more (What's the rationale against? National security?).

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